The Citizen, 2003-12-03, Page 14New pumper
The Blyth Fire Department was thrilled to receive a donation pumper truck from the Tiverton
Fire Department last Friday morning to be used in the Blyth Emergency Services Training
(BEST) Centre. Bruce MacKenzie (far right), mechanical officer and Carl Avis, Tiverton fire
chief, hand a set of keys to the pumper over to Paul Josling, Blyth fire chief. (Eiyse DeBruyn pnoM
County council briefs
Ambulance service motion defeated
A motion to extend temporary
additional ambulance service in the
lakeshore area south of Goderich
was defeated by the county's
committee of the whole and
confirmed by county council Nov.
26.
A delegation from the area had
attended the Nov. 18 committee
meeting to ask for an extension of
the service beyond the Nov. 15 date
to which the county had earlier
extended the summer service
Treasurer David Carey had
informed the committee it had
already cost $27,000 for the earlier
one-month extension of the service
with no additional funding from the
province. Extending the service
longer could put the county into a
deficit, he said.
A motion to extend the service had
been defeated 9-6.
***
The telephone system at the health
and library complex south of Clinton
crashed on Nov. 13 and will have to
be replaced. The system was
installed in 1995 and had exceeded
its life expectancy of five to seven
years. A similar system was also
installed at the courthouse at that
time and also must be replaced
because it is at capacity.
The breakdown does provide the
opportunity to purchase a system
that offers many more features.
Preliminary discussions have taken
place with suppliers with estimated
costs ranging from $60,()()() to
$ lOO.OOO.
The number of people receiving
assistance under the Ontario Works
program continues to drop. In
September there were 3.4 per cent
fewer cases with .29 per cent fewer
beneficiaries than in August and
year-over-year declines were 8.59
per cent fewer cases and 3.5 per cent
fewer beneficiaries than a year
earlier.
***
You'Ll soon be seeing signs
advertising Crime Stoppers on
county road signs as well as the
current Road Watch signs.
Crime Stoppers officials appeared
before the agriculture, public works
and seniors committee on Nov. 12
and received support tor the
installation of signs .on the same
posts as Road Watch signs. County
council confirmed that decision Nov.
26.***
The agriculture, public works and
seniors committee also called for
more research into the need, size and
type of generators required for
backup power at county ambulance
stations. Ambulance management
had proposed the purchase of one
generator in 2004 to be installed at
the Clinton-Seaforth base.
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